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Prasenjit Biswas
CAA and Laws in the Making in Northeast India
20 Jan 2020
The NRC exercise in Assam gave rise to two categories of people – those who are part of a ‘silent invasion’ and ‘external aggression’ by being Muslims of Bengal origin and the other, non-immigrant
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NPR-NRC Is a Weapon to Attack Citizenship of Muslims
14 Jan 2020
Even as anti-CAA and anti-NRC protests continue to rock the country, the central government has unleashed another attack in the form of National Population Register.
Sandipan Talukdar
CAA Enforced, But Assam Still Enraged
12 Jan 2020
While almost every state of the country is protesting after the passage of CAB, Assam has been at the forefront since 2016—when the CAB was proposed.
Suraj Gogoi and Rintu Borah
Can Assam Look Beyond Ethnic and Regional Politics?
12 Jan 2020
Today, the crisis of global migration is unsettling the logic of territorial sovereignty and citizenship that underpins the modern nation-state.
Taha Amin Mazumder
As Assam Paper Mill Employees Await Salary of 36 Months, Children 'Beg' for Donation on Streets
10 Jan 2020
There are also allegations of government’s ‘conspiracy’ to close down the mills of HPCL to favour private paper product-making firms.
Citizens for Justice and Peace
Citizen Interrupted: Assam’s Citizenship Crisis
09 Jan 2020
Saken Ali's story from Assam also raises the question- what will happen if all India NRC process begins?
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Shadowy Corner: Fifty Years of History and Politics of the North-east
07 Jan 2020
A brief extract from Struggling in a Time Warp by Hiren Gohain.
Taha Amin Mazumder
Anti-CAA Protests: How Assam Stands at Crossroads Between Regionalism and Secularism
03 Jan 2020
Even as AASU and other organisations have managed to keep protests across the state peaceful—barring a few exceptions—many fear that if CAA is not scrapped, the movement could turn into something…
Ditsa Bhattacharya
Anti-CAA Protests: Internet Shutdown, Violent Repression, 3 Dead, Yet Protesters Continue to Hit Streets
20 Dec 2019
In several parts of the country, the police manhandled, detained and arrested thousands of protesters, while mobile internet was suspended and curfew imposed in an attempt to control the intensifying…
Sandeep Pandey, Rahul Pandey
Has Communal Polarisation Reached its Peak?
19 Dec 2019
The protests against the amended Citizenship Act, which started from the North-east, have now spread to other parts of India.